Make It There

I can't believe this.
I can't believe that I'm here again.
But I am here for a purpose.
A good one.
For Bebe.
Here I am, all alone again with the white hallway in front of me.
We went our own separate way according to the plan: Pekka the spy, Henrik the guard, and me?
Me...the hero.
With a deep breath in, I walked through the hallway, letting it guide me with the straights and turns.
My footsteps mimicked my heartbeat: loud and fast.
Where would she be? I looked around seeing the whiteness around me. At the dungeon? Or with Kari? No, no, no, she can't be with Kari--I don't not want to bump with that guy again.
I wiped my sweaty hands on my jean. I felt the pressure pressing on my shoulders the further I go down the hallway, making me feel like I'm hunchbacked, even though I'm walking straight up; I felt fear growing in me.
Why am I afraid? Is it because of Kari? Well, yea... But what can he do? What harm can he do? I have powers. Ohhh...he has telepathy...But I can beat him. If I want to. Just do this--for Bebe.
Then I heard footsteps echo behind me.
"Henrik?" I called out.
"Nice guess," a voice said behind me. "Try again."
I knew who was behind me. I made a sharp turn and blasted a big shot at Jonathan.
Jonathan deflected it with his knives, making it bounce back at me.
I fell to the ground quickly, like what I do when I'm saving a bouncing puck, dodging the blast.
"Nice move," Jonathan congratulated me.
"Same with you," I told him. I was about to get back up when Jonathan suddenly shoved me back onto the ground. "What the hell?!" I turned over, tripping him with my feet. I got up quickly and placed my foot on Jonathan's back so that he wouldn't get up "Henrik!" I yelled. "Lundqvist, where the hell are you?!"
As a response, a thick ribbon of water wrapped around my waist. Then I was pulled backwards, bumping into someone that was behind me.
"Sinä tulet minun kanssani," Antti whispered into my ear. (You're coming with me.)

"Oh, Tuukka, Tuukka, Tuukka... Here we are, once again." Kari turned around, looking at me. "Why do you keep on doing this?"
We were in the lab--the same old lab that got me here in the first place.
"Where's my wife?" I demanded, ignoring Kari's question.
"Oh, so you know that I took your wife."
"It was obvious. Very obvious."
"And you also thought that it was obvious that getting your wife back was gonna be easy, right?"
I just stared at Kari with narrow eyes.
"Well, it was easy knowing where your wife's at, but the hard part is getting her back. Now that's hard that you know where she's at, but you just can't get her."
"Give me back my wife! Nyt!" I shook myself, trying to move even though I was cuffed to a big, metal slate that was up standing up straight. (Now!)
"No. I won't. Unless..."
"Unless what?"
"You give me yourself." Kari held out his hand towards me.
"NO! No, no, no, no, no!" That was all I was able to say.
"Okay, that's fine. You'll just not have her back."
"Why me?!" I shouted. "Why are you doing this to me?"
"Because..."
"I don't even know you! Here I was, just enjoying my life and then you just come over and trash it! Why are you destroy me like this?!"
"I am more related to you than you think," Kari answered.
"How?"
"Because..." Kari walked up to me. "...I'm your brother."
My eyes widened. "You? My brother?! Valheita! All lies! How?!" (Lies!)
"I just am." Kari shrugged. "My dad liked you and my mom liked me. One day, they got into a fight because of their favoritism. You were one back then. They ended up getting divorced..." Kari gave me a cold stare. "...thanks to you."
"What?! Me?! What did I have to do with tha--"
"Without you, my parents would've still bee--"
"It's not my fault that your parents ha--"
"Hijaa, Rask!" Kari yelled. "Just. Shut. Up." There was silence for a moment. "It's over now. And now I'm doing all of this because--" (Shut up, Rask!)
"I unknowingly ruined your life?" I cut in. "Kari, this is stupid! Idiotic! Why are you spending your time--"
"You also killed my daughter!" Kari cut in harshly.
"What? How?"
"When you battle against that robot that was once a girl. You remember?"
"That's your...daughter?" Just knowing that he had a family was news to me.
"And you abandoned my son."
"Why did you even--"
"ETKÖ JUURI KUULE MINUA!?!" Kari roared. "I simply told you shut up." (DIDN'T YOU JUST HEAR ME!?!)
"I don't respect you," I answered calmly. "I won't listen to you." Then with my magnetic powers, I freed myself and threw the ripped cuffs at Kari.
Kari melted them with his light powers.
I got off the slate and turned my hand into a gun; I shot a blue ball of energy, otherwise known as my 'bullet,' at Kari.
Kari somehow stopped it in mid-air and threw it back at me.
It engulfed me.
Oh shoot, I killed myself.
Nope. It didn't.
Instead, it absorbed in me and I felt like I was charged with more power.
No need for dodging anymore.
"Thanks...bro." I threw a blue energy disc at Kari. I just aired it big time. Gotta practice my aim.
Before I was able to throw another one, pain began to fill my mind, making sharp noise. "Ugh." I fell down to my knees with my hands on my head. Not this again... I wasn't even able to think for long. I squeezed my eyes shut and placed my face on my thighs.
"You're gonna lose," I heard Kari said, loud and clear. "You either don't get Bebe or you get controlled by me. There's not another way."
Then I felt the pain disappear. I looked up.
I was no longer in the lab with Kari--I was at a beach during sundown; the sky was very red with splashes of orange and pink. I got up with the sand underneath my feet. The warm wind flowed through my hair and the waves calmly met the shore.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" I heard a voice say next to me.
I looked next to me and there was Bebe, looking as beautiful as the sunset. "Yea." I placed my hands in my pockets.
"Let's go"--Bebe held onto my free hand-- "to the hotel."
"Hotel? Why a hotel? Aren't we close to our house?"
"Oh yes, right. It's right behind you."
I turned around and sure enough was our house, looming down at us. Then I just remembered that our was burned down. "Wait, our house can't be here."
"Why not?" Bebe placed her hands on my shoulders. "You wanted our house, right?"
"Yea, but...it's burned down. It's gone."
Bebe giggled a bit. "No it's not, silly. Not here."
Not here. I had a bad feeling about this. Bebe was acting weird, the house is now back up...everything seems too perfect.
Perfect. Then I remembered Henrik telling me that Kari brings you to another world--a perfect world.
This is all made up. I don't belong here. I need to come back, come back before Kari makes a mess out of me.
I looked at Bebe. "Bye." Then I ran towards the ocean.
"Tuukka!!!" I heard Bebe cry out. "What are you doing?!"
I'm escaping, that's what I'm doing. I just ignored her and let myself drown.
Drown back to reality.

I was back on the cold floor of the lab.
Surprisingly, I felt better--better than before I went to that fake, perfect world of Kari's imagination.
"Miten?" (How?)
I sat up and saw Kari knelt next to a corner, looking down.
"How did you...escape?" Kari sounded like he was about to cry.
I smirked. "I just...know."
"UGH!!!" Kari threw a ball of light at me in frustration.
I just laid back down, dodging it. "So..." I got back up. "since I practically defeated you, where's Bebe?"
"She's..." Kari looked at me with a deadly look. "...next door."

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